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From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: ethernet: validate pause autoneg setting
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 16:59:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200513145934.GD9071@lion.mk-sys.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200513134925.GE499265@lunn.ch>

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 03:49:25PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > So, I think consistency of implementation is more important than fixing
> > this; the current behaviour has been established for many years now.
> 
> With netlink ethtool we have the possibility of adding a new API to
> control this. And we can leave the IOCTL API alone, and the current
> ethtool commands. We can add a new command to ethtool which uses the new API.
> 
> Question is, do we want to do this? Would we be introducing yet more
> confusion, rather than making the situation better?

For the record, netlink interface for pause parameters which is based on
existing ioctl and ethtool_ops is in mainline but not in v5.6. If there
is a consensus that it should be rethought, it might still be possible
to drop these two request types and come with a better API later (i.e.
in 5.8 or 5.9 cycle).

Michal


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-12  0:24 [PATCH net-next 0/4] Extend phylib implementation of pause support Doug Berger
2020-05-12  0:24 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: ethernet: validate pause autoneg setting Doug Berger
2020-05-12  0:47   ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-12 18:31     ` Doug Berger
2020-05-12 18:37       ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-12 18:55       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13  3:48         ` Doug Berger
2020-05-13  5:34           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13  9:20             ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13 13:49               ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-13 14:59                 ` Michal Kubecek [this message]
2020-05-13 17:14                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13 22:09                 ` Doug Berger
2020-05-13 21:31               ` Doug Berger
2020-05-13 21:27             ` Doug Berger
2020-05-12 19:08       ` Michal Kubecek
2020-05-13  2:37         ` Doug Berger
2020-05-12  3:16   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-05-12  0:24 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: add autoneg parameter to linkmode_set_pause Doug Berger
2020-05-12  0:24 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: ethernet: introduce phy_set_pause Doug Berger
2020-05-12  0:51   ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-12 18:46     ` Doug Berger
2020-05-12  3:22   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-05-13  9:42   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13 21:39     ` Doug Berger
2020-05-12  0:24 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: bcmgenet: add support for ethtool flow control Doug Berger
2020-05-12  3:24   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-05-13  9:52   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13 22:00     ` Doug Berger

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